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There’s a fine line between a dream and a nightmare sometimes, and often the colors and timbres of each intersect at a perfect point. Mol Sullivan’s “Eggshells” dives into the deepest end, tackling the difficulties of balancing one’s own needs against those of a trying friendship. Navigating the emotional strip mine of figuring out who […]
A wistful mood settles into the flickering guitar melodies and plaintive chord progressions on “Summer Session #7,” offset by the vivid imagery of Renee Willoughby’s video. Infinite River is searching for something, digging through fleeting memories hoping to find an unspoken truth in the vault before the last bit of sunlight fades. Tanpura chatter buoys […]
In the opening moments of “and the ashes birthed them into air and their bodies hurtled towards the fire of the sun,” it’s as though some kind of creature, constrained for millennia, is finally breaking free. Hissing feedback and hollow drones keep pushing back the simmering rhythms, but eventually, the restraints break and it takes […]
Intersecting threads bind Lea Bertucci’s “Vapours” to an ephemeral point on the horizon. Elegiac string arrangements are in constant, subtle motion, sparked into action by the world’s decay moving from the margins into its core. Commissioned and performed by Italy’s Quartetto Maurice, Bertucci’s composition finds life in sparse textures and connection in the unseen spirit […]
Ann Eysermans’ last album on cortizona, For Trainspotters Only, was an incredible feat. For her latest, Moonlight Shadoh, she moves on from trains as inspiration to create something more intimate, a tribute to her dog Shadoh. When “PUMST” opens with an amalgamation of dark textures and harsh, wistful melodies, we’re whisked into a world of […]
The odd juxtaposition of imagery and sound in Rrose Defoix’s “Blurb Flu” video is emblematic of the music as a whole. On a surface level, it leaves me disoriented and confused – in a good way – but as I travel further into its sonic cracks, some kind of sense crystallizes. Even while I lose […]
Follow the smoke, find the fire. CLASS is relentless, and they tear the whole party to the ground on their new record, If You’ve Got Nothing. After feedback warms our cold hearts and fuzzed-out power chords paint everything in concrete gray, they spill the song’s sentiment from the beginning. “Sick, sick, sick of the same old […]
Light beams made from snaking string melodies cut jagged holes in the harsh, resonant atmosphere of “Immer Besser,” letting the outside world for the first time in eons. Percussive swashes welcome the cascading arrangements before everything guest drummer Greg Fox touches explodes into a full-force sonic gale. This music is huge, the anthems of another […]
Lost in a quiet downpour, JWPaton’s “Aunty” moves through countless spaces like a stealth razor, leaving small sonic traces while collecting remnants of echoes along the way. Landscapes sound in the margins of “Aunty,” culled forms shaped by technological tools, as though these expressions are lost reverberations from a different time. Melodic loops flicker, moving […]